The Cornerstone #41: Transforming Union with the Beloved
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Ave Maria! After looking at the spiritual life at different angles based on the different persons found in the drama at Calvary. Father Maximilian speaks of the Alpha and the Omega of the spiritual life: Christ - who has the Absolute Primacy. The peak of the spiritual life, through the...
The Cornerstone #40: Mary at the Foot of the Cross
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Ave Maria! Father Maximilian continues to look at the characters of the Passion and how they reflect different aspects of the spiritual life. Now he shifts his focus to Our Blessed Mother, the woman who suffered and yet still rejoiced in God her Savior. Mary is THE model of the Church; she is...
The Cornerstone #39: St. John the Apostle
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Ave Maria! In this episode, Fr. Maximilian continues to reflect on the role of Mary in our spiritual lives. Who is the model of contemplation at Calvary? It is the beloved disciple, John the Apostle. St. John contemplated the Word made flesh; he laid his head against the breast of Christ at...
The Cornerstone #38: St. Mary Magdalen
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Ave Maria! In this episode, Fr. continues his examination of the scene at Calvary and Mary's role in our spiritual life. The process of purification is essential if we are to grow in our Christian life, and we see this process embodied in the person of St. Mary Magdalen. In the Gospels, Mary...
The Cornerstone #37: Mary and St Longinus
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Ave Maria! In this episode, we return to blood-stained Calvary and the tears of Our Lady, which co-mingled with the blood of Jesus for our salvation. Now Father Maximilian points his spotlight on the centurion, St. Longinus, a Roman executioner by trade and then a child of God by grace. He...
The Cornerstone #36: The Good Thief
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Ave Maria! This episode Fr. Maximilian discusses St. Dismas, the Good Thief, who died with Christ, but confessed his sins and asked Him for forgiveness. Listen as Fr. Maximilian explains how Mary has a role in his conversion. He also covers the conversion of Alphonse Ratisbonne who converted...
The Cornerstone #35: Mary and the Sin of Adam
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Ave Maria! If Adam and Eve had not sinned, would Mary have even existed? In this episode, Fr. Maximilian discusses how the Franciscan thesis differs from the Thomistic thesis in regards to Our Lady. Is the difference between the two positions minimal or is it stark? Fr. quotes from Thomaists...
The Cornerstone #34: God's Unchanging Plan
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Ave Maria! The overall 'Plan' [of God] is always the same, but [because of sin] the 'plan' changes. How can God's plan for all creation be the same but not the same? This statement from the followers of Bl. Jon Duns Scotus seems to be a contradiction. In this episode of The Absolute Primacy...
The Cornerstone #33: Love for Love
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Ave Maria! St. Therese of the Child Jesus has said, Love is repaid by love alone.Elsewhere it is said in simpler form: Love for love, meaning God first offers us His love in the hope that we will respond by giving Him ours. This principle of action and reaction is the heart of Bl. John Duns...
The Cornerstone #32: Mary our Mediatrix
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Ave Maria! After God there is Jesus, after Jesus, there is the Blessed Virgin Mary. There is nothing heretical in such a statement as long as it is understood properly, and the glory of the BVM has been an underlying theme of this series. Christ is the Head of His Body, the Church, and we can...
The Cornerstone #31: Mary According to St. Francis
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Ave Maria! Fr. Maximilian continues his reflection on Mary in God's creative plan. In this entry, Father reaffirms Mary's exalted position through the eyes of St. Francis in his Antiphon for the Office of the Passion and in another of his prayers titled Salutation to the Blessed Virgin. In these...
The Cornerstone #30: Unique Role of Mary
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Ave Maria! In God's plan. Do some participate more fully in God's plan than others? Do all the children of God have an equal share in His mediation of grace? Listen now as Father Maximilian explains the uniqueness of Mary and her place on center stage. Ave Maria! This video series is based on...
The Cornerstone #28: How Christ Mediates Grace
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Ave Maria! If Christ is the one mediator between God and man, how exactly does He mediate grace to us?According to Bl. John Duns Scotus, Christ mediates it 2 ways: ex unione and ex gratia. Ex unione refers to His very existence as the God-Man, which is a singularly unique union between God and...
The Cornerstone #29: Incarnation: Elevate 1st, Redeem 2nd
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Ave Maria! Catholics often hear it said that, If it weren't for the fall (of man), there would have been no need for the Incarnation (of Christ). On the contrary, according to Bl. John Duns Scotus. Christ is the mediator between God and man, sin or no sin. As He Himself said, No man comes to the...
The Cornerstone #27: Absolute Primacy of Christ
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Ave Maria! Click in as Fr. Maximilian Mary recapitulates all that he has said thus far about the absolute primacy of Jesus Christ and prepares to launch into the subject of the mediation of grace and glory through the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary. Having established the absolute primacy of...
The Cornerstone #26: Test of the Angels
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Ave Maria! According to the Franciscan thesis, Saints and Angels alike were predestined to grace and glory in Christ. For it has pleased God the Father that in Him all His fullness should dwell, and that He should lead all things to unity [apokatallaxai] in Christ, whether on the earth or in the...
The Cornerstone #25: Colossians 1:18
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Ave Maria! A key for establishing the absolute primacy of Christ is the fact that the Word-made-flesh has a primacy over the Angels. In this episode Fr. Maximilian shows that for St. Paul and Bl. John Duns Scotus, Christ's headship is not simply over fallen mankind, but over the Angels as well....
The Cornerstone #24: Colossians 1:16-17
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Ave Maria! In this episode Fr. Maximilian Mary covers key points of Christian metaphysics based on St. Paul's Epistle to the Colossians. The language of the Holy Apostle reveals Christ as the Exemplary Cause of all creation: For in Him were created all things (Col 1:16); the Efficient Cause...
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